Turns out I made a very simple mistake; I had attempted to start eJabebrd with "systemctl start ejabberd". However, ejabberd brings its own control application. The correct way to start it is "ejabberctl start".

I got tired of my (self-hosted) wordpress site for several reasons, the main ones being:

Having my own hardware in a datacenter is way too expensive

Wordpress ran way too slowly and I felt like I do not have the time to properly optimise it

So, I've migrated the Geekworker blog to blogger.com. Blogger works surprisingly well and I really like the interface. There are some drawbacks too, such as not having a good font for code snippets.

The import - I had to use a third party site for conversion - seems to have worked, too, but expect some font weirdness and broken images until I can go through all posts and fix them. Thanks for your patience!

Update, August 5th: Broken images and the worst formatting problems should now be fixed. Don't hesitate to report problems, please!

Thursday, January 26, 2017

I use OBS Studio to record videos, and would ideally like to record multiple audio tracks (so that I might balance audio levels in post-production). Unfortunately, when I import these MP4 videos into Sony Movie Studio Platinum, it detects no audio tracks.

The problem is a buggy DLL file.

To fix this, go to your program's install folder (mine resides in D:\Applications\Sony\Movie Studio Platinum 12.0) and find a subdirectory called "FileIO Plug-Ins\compoundplug". In this folder, you will find a file called "compoundplug.dll". Simply rename this (to "compoundplug.backup", for example) and your Sony Vegas or Sony Movie Studio should now import mp4 files correctly - even with multiple audio tracks.

Update, 2017-08-03: Never versions of Movie Studio likely do not have this problem. I have upgraded to Vegas Pro 14, and it reads files with multiple audio tracks just fine.